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US
/ɹɪˈspɑnsɪv/
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[ UK /ɹɪspˈɒnsɪv/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪspˈɒnsɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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containing or using responses; alternating
antiphonal laughter
responsive reading -
reacting to a stimulus
the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons -
readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion
children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience
How To Use responsive In A Sentence
- But in a world where grooming students for a career and making the arts responsive to business are key government priorities, a little artistic vision goes a long way.
- Responsive phylotypes were mostly proteobacteria in the subarctic and California HNLC areas, but no changes were noted in the subantarctic experiments.
- Organizing your finances and time helps you become more productive and responsive and ensures you avoid unnecessary pitfalls, such as incurring wasteful late fees. AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS
- Modern soldiers are far less responsive to shouting than their predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
- The electronic power-assisted steering feels well weighted, with a slow rack ratio but an on-centre sluggishness, which is safe and steady but not at all responsive. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- But even if some of the facts aren't I new to us, we look to thinkers and policymakers like him not only for fresh syntheses, but also for responsive and realistic answers to the problem.
- whatsit", and then Dr Watson may decide that dumpreg. exe is itself unresponsive so it launches further instance (s) of dumpreg. exe to report the failure (s) of the previous instance (s), and the system suffers a fatal embrace and hardly ever looks at the mouse and keyboard to see me hammering away in desperation. DonationCoder.com Forum
- The steering is agile and responsive and it takes tight bends in its stride. The Sun
- It forced it to consider more carefully the preferences of the average viewer, to become more responsive to viewers. The Media in Britain Today
- The latter acts as a very slow brake, or a very unresponsive gas pedal on the economy.